Christmas Tree Felt Set

We hadn’t added to our felt board sets in a while, and I wanted to reactivate E’s interest in her felt board, so one evening when E was in bed, I had the idea of making her a Christmas tree felt set that would allow her to decorate and redecorate as much as she wants.

To make your own Christmas Tree Felt Set, you’ll need:

It took me well under an hour to make this set, and I’m not exactly an expert at working with felt or very crafty to begin with.

I cut a Christmas tree template out of regular paper and lightly taped it to the green felt sheet. The sticky tape helped give me more control when I cut out the tree, and I added bits of sticky tape as needed on the underside of the middle branches as I went.

This project gave me a chance to use some very small scraps of felt, especially when I made candles.

I cut tiny rectangles in different colors and tiny bits of yellow felt in rough drop shapes for the flames, then used a small drop of hot glue to attach the flames to the candles.

That was the most “complicated” part of the whole felt set, for the rest, I simply cut out different shapes in different colors freehand.

I made some hearts, circles, triangles and a few more random shapes in different colors, plus a yellow star for the top of the Christmas tree. None of them are perfect, and they don’t have to be!

Finally, I cut some slightly larger rectangular shapes that can either make more decorations, or could be used as gifts under the tree.

The next morning, E spied the bits of felt immediately and went to get her felt board.

When she was done, she put all the pieces back into a Ziploc bag on her own to play with again another day.

If you don’t have a felt board, you can use the pieces in a busy bag for places where your child has a table to play on. The “gifts” could be skipped or just used as ornaments, as E did even on the felt board. {Check out this Super Quick Christmas Tree Busy Bag that comes together even more quickly.}